At least the history of satire will be available

Perhaps after last weeks events,the Independent's review of the acrtoon archive shows that satire has been with us for some time.

The paper reports that

From anti-union images that nearly brought the printing presses of London's Evening Standard to a grinding halt, to caricatures of Harold Macmillan as an ageing muscle man and John Major as a feeble hero in underpants, thousands of images that newspaper readers encountered over their breakfast cereals are to be put online.
Created by the country's most acclaimed cartoonists since 1903, some of the illustrations have remained unseen for decades. Now, the largest collection of British social and political cartoons, catalogued by the British Cartoon Archive, will become available on the internet from Wednesday

The archive will contain some 120,000 images dating back to the turn of the 20th century